German commercial broadcaster, ProSiebenSat.1, has stated that it is not interested in acquiring Comcast’s Sky Deutschland operation. ProSiebenSat.1 CFO Ralf Gierig, speaking to Reuters, said the broadcaster was very much focusing on conventional, linear FTA television and its digital footprint. “Sky is in the pay-TV business, which is historically a difficult business in Germany,” he […]
In the third quarter of 2022, ProSiebenSat.1 Group generated Group revenues of €921 million, down 13 per cent (previous year: €1.055 billion), in what is called a “challenging market environment”. Adjusted for currency effects and excluding the revenue contributions of portfolio companies recently disposed, such as the US production business of Red Arrow Studios as […]
Deutsche Telekom will air all 64 matches of the 2022 FIFA World Cup live on MagentaTV from November 20th to December 18th. DT has presented the hybrid World Cup studio at a Media Day at PLAZAMEDIA at the AGROB Medienpark in Ismaning near Munich. During MagentaTV’s coverage, this new and innovative XR LED Studio from […]
Deutsche Telekom continues its stable growth course. Net revenue at the German telco increased by 8.8 per cent year-on-year in the third quarter of 2022 to €29 billion. Even higher was the growth in service revenues, which increased by 12.5 per cent to €23.6 billion. Adjusted EBITDA AL increased by 8.5 per cent in the […]
ProSiebenSat.1 is realigning its production and international distribution business. Following the establishment of two new production companies in Germany over the past twelve months and the sale of Red Arrow Studio’s US production business in the summer of 2022, the Munich-headquartered media group is bundling its eight subsidiaries in Germany, UK, Denmark and Israel and […]
The total turnover of the audio and audiovisual media in Germany is expected to rise slightly by 2.5 per cent in 2022 and exceed €15 billion for the first time (2021: €14.8 billion). The main contributors are subscription and advertising revenues of audio and video streaming services. By contrast, the fallout from the tense overall […]
Sport1 has acquired an extensive rights package for the 2023/2024 to 2026/2027 seasons for exploitation in Germany when the media rights to the FLYERALARM Women’s Bundesliga were awarded by the German Soccer Association (Deutscher Fussball-Bund, DFB). At the core of the package are 22 live matches per season, which SPORT1 will present in primetime on […]
Production is underway for new Sky Original drama, Dostoevsky, produced in-house by Sky Studios, in association with Paco Cinematografica. The six-part series, marks the first TV project from acclaimed Italian directors, screenwriters and brothers, Fabio and Damiano D’Innocenzo, who burst on to the international cinema scene in 2018 with their debut Boys Cry followed by […]
gebrueder beetz filmproduktion and OneGate Media have announced that their true crime series Reeperbahn Special Unit 65 will be the first documentary series to run in the fiction competition of the Hamburg International Film Festival, on October 6th. High-end true crime docuseries Reeperbahn Special Unit 65 tells the story of the fight between Special Unit […]
German distributor Studio Hamburg Enterprises has announced it will operate under the new name of OneGate Media, with Tania Reichert-Facilides as MD. Founded over 60 years ago as a subsidiary of regional public broadcaster NDR (Norddeutscher Rundfunk) OneGate Media is now part of the Studio Hamburg Group. Covering worldwide distribution for TV content, its 70 […]